Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English, Greek, or French South African, or Latin; Almost any wench Would cotton to Mountbatten...
...charming to visitors and apparently as reasonable as ever, but he often seems bewildered and uncertain nowadays, a counterpuncher with nothing to counter. The "role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero," which he envisioned for himself and his country, is more and more becoming a role in a Greek tragedy, its protagonist hopelessly playing out his own doom. He still has the possibility of creating further disasters, but no soundly bottomed hope of raising up his people, for he has denied himself the trust of those who could help him fulfill his original dream. He can only call...
...case, that of 26-year-old Andreas Panayiotou, who died in his cell, the commission ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou who, after her Greek-speaking interrogator had punched her on the nose, warned him that she was pregnant. Thereupon the interrogator had told her that unless she told him the whereabouts of EOKA's top man, Colonel Grivas, she would suffer a miscarriage, which after two subsequent attacks, she did. Constable 1413 brought...
...most cases the courses meet once a week for a three-hour combined lecture and seminar. The subjects range from the Nature of Music and the Masterpieces of Greek Literature to the History of Science. Last fall one professor started a series of seminars on Human Potentiality, soon had his students jumping from psychology to philosophy to religion, reading everything from Sorokin to Fromm to Alexis Carrel. Surprisingly, says Steere. the course has become the particular favorite of electrical engineers, "whom you usually think of as pretty restricted...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Scenes from notable Greek, Elizabethan and contemporary plays...